Editing Bombay by Night (section)

=== Backgrounds ===

At character creation, characters cannot have the Domain background (because of the move to India making the Domain useless to the characters) and they cannot have the backgrounds: Contact, Fame or Influence above one if they try to purchase them for use in Bombay.This means that a character can have Fame 3 (Paris) for example, but they cannot have Fame 3 (Bombay), because they have just arrived in Bombay and have not had the time to establish themselves yet. All characters start at generation 13 before purchase of the generation background.

Backgrounds cannot be purchased with experience points (either the 50 at character generation or with ones gained later), they can only be gained by in-game or downtime based actions. Combining backgrounds is possible both during play and before the game begins, but each case must be checked for approval.

The available Backgrounds are: Allies, Alternate Identity, Contacts, Domain, Fame, Generation, Herd, Influence, Mentor, Resources, Retainers, Status.